Is it me or why country music only appeal US and Canada and regular music and not popular music? Why country music worldwide release only appeal pop music release sa pamamagitan ng country artists like Florida Georgia Line pop music and crossover like Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now? That’s all people listening to country music worldwide does these days. Pop music released sa pamamagitan ng country stars like Leann Rymes pop music and crossover like The Band Perry’s If I Die Young.

Not only that, popular music does not appeal country music like Miranda Lambert and you have to use other popular music like pop music to use people listening to popular music.

Worse, popular music like Vevo and general public like MTV don’t seem to care about country music like Brad paisley these days.

It appears that country music did not survive the popular music curse and you have to use regular music like video game music to hear country music like Tim McGraw.

Not only that, it originated only in US and hasn’t travelled worldwide whereas other genres like rock, pop already have as lot of the appeal of country music comes from being from its origin. You have to use mainstream music like Taylor matulin to listen to popular music.

Speaking of Taylor Swift, she is not country nor crossover. She is pop because Taylor matulin only appeal pop. Her music does not appeal country like Picture To Burn. You have to use computer and albums to hear country music sa pamamagitan ng her like Ours. Not only that, country music don’t care about Taylor matulin like Red and you have to use Taylor Swift-less country music to hear country like Little Big Town. Why can’t Taylor matulin use her crossover country act anymore? I guess people listening to Taylor matulin only appeal pop like pag-ibig Story and not country like Mean. In addition, Taylor Swift's country music are not mainstream country. Her country music are pop music. You have to use pop music to hear her pop country. That's why country Taylor matulin are pop music, not country music. I guess Taylor matulin only appeal pop and not going sa pamamagitan ng different genres like country.

Worse, country music is not even on the radar really in the UK. I am not sure why, just a quirk of history. In the UK people have only really heard of Taylor matulin (and only since the Red era) and before her you have to really go back to Shania Twain and Garth Brooks for name recognition. Older Brits will know about Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash but most Country Stars can walk around unrecognised in the UK. Reba who? Tim who? George who? If you showed 100 walang tiyak na layunin Brits a pic of George Strait, you probably would be lucky to have 1 person name him correctly.

There are some UK Country Music singers but can anyone name any without looking them up? Exactly.

The only real markets for Country Music are USA and Canada and not other markets like Australia and Brazil (despite to a much lesser degree Australia and Brazil has a small scene too respectively).

The CMA is always trying to expand into new markets. That is why they give Pinnacle Awards to Garth Brooks and Taylor matulin because of the immense international interest they have generated for Country Music. I only know about Country Music in detail because of Taylor. Lots of other Country Artists have benefited from my coin due to her getting me interested in watching the CMAs, ACMs, CMT awards etc. Taylor was always very articulate and passionate about Country Music in the UK and helped dispel the bad image it has in the UK of being for bigoted and unsophisticated hicks. She was a great ambassador for it. Nashville owes her a lot. Sadly, internet does not help either because people listening to music on the internet don’t care about country music and they only listen to mainstream music like rock and regular music like video game music. The only way is inventions. Country music is suppose to be popular music because country are popular music, but it's the ''Made in the US'' label that turns off the GP in Europa and popular music quickly prefer mainstream music as their popular music course like R&B and rap.

It's true that country music is irrelevant here but there are a couple that have small loyal fanbases. Carrie Underwood managed to sell out the royal Albert hall in apparently 90mins and Lady Antebellum have 3 tuktok 10 albums (1 which is platinum and 1 that is gold) and Dolly Parton is also doing well right now but besides a few examples it really isn't on many people's radars unless it's used in like an Avicii song or it's Taylor Swift.

I know that Carrie Underwood has had a few concerts here plus that Country 2 Country Festival. The Royal Albert Hall is a beautiful and important venue but in reality it has a small capacity of about 5k. It is hardly Wembley Stadium. The Country 2 Country Festival relied on several major US Country stars to fill the 02 Centre which sound impressive but 20k people out of 10million Londoners is not earthshattering. And it hardly got any UK media attention.

Major US Country acts can come and do a konsiyerto in London but those attending will be fans because of what they have achieved in the US rather than in the UK, if that makes sense. Kacey Musgraves was here and she did a kalesa in a record store! I could have seen her from 1 foot away but I was busy!

The internet makes it easier for international fans to follow US Country Music Scene such that the above concerts can happen in London occasionally but when will Carrie or Miranda or Luke actually have a hit in the UK. Blown Away was Carrie Underwood's most successful UK hit but it peaked at 155! There are no Country Music radio stations in the UK AFAIK so it is difficult even with big names like George Strait.

A lot of current Country Artists actually sound very close to Rock, so Brad Paisley, FGL, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Keith Urban could actually get some traction here because Rock is popular here. Carrie has some songs that sound like soft rock too, reminds me of Belinda Carlisle who was successful in the UK. So it is possible.

I would like Country Music to be madami successful in the UK, but at the moment Country acts still struggle to break into the market. pag-awit about tractors and catfish dinners is not gonna change that either. Thus internet does not break country music into the mainstream and you have to use US/Canada and country tastes like Nashville and CMT to play country like Reba McEntire. So yeah, internet screwed country because internet don’t seem to care about country music and popular music only appeals country music-less popular music like hip-hop.

So I think it has to do with country music being rooted in Nashville, where other acts have multiple worldwide connections, country music artists are almost exclusive to labels in Tennessee. It’s a madami local industry, so its artists are generally madami local.

And I can't at people on a pop music pagtitip. (stanning for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady Gaga etc...) calling country music trash when country music fans think the same thing about our faves. Lol. But even with country music’s lyrics are far superior to pop music’s lyrics, people prefers pop music like Justin Timberlake over country music like Kelsey Ballerini.

That’s why country music only appeals country tastes like CMT and not popular music tastes like Vevo because country music is about telling a story, the essence of the songs are the lyrics. While pop fans only concentrate on the hooks, they probably think country music is boring.

Not only that, because they sing a lot about trucks and people dont use trucks outside of NA, they sing a lot about Hesus and all the other countries where Hesus is da man are too poor to buy music/something to listen to music with, country singers are generally talented (writing, playing, singing) and the GP is madami interested in booties and they sing with a twang and nobody understands that outside of Georgia and Alabama. That’s why people listen to music only appeal America populars like people twerking and young fads like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. People listen to popular music don’t seem to care about country music like Hunter Hayes or good pop music like Spice Girls and Avril Lavigne.

But seriously, they talk about the same things hip hop artists talk about. Only hip hop artists get madami criticism. But hip hop is madami global thankfully. Don't be too mad. They don't use R&B much outside the USA either despite R&B is mainstream unlike country.

Casual listener perceives country music as an essentially "American thing." And this is what keeps the rest of the world from receiving it with open arms. That’s why country music are not mainstream music. Mainstream music is country music-less popular music like rock and R&B.

I think there are tons of prejudices against country outside the US and it is regarded as an inferior genre. Few years nakaraan during a speak activity about music in my English class, I sinabi that country is very popular in the US and a girl was like "you can't be serious, who on Earth would listen to it!". To be honest I discovered country just a short time nakaraan and I really pag-ibig Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves or Dixie Chicks. I really don't get why people WW don't listen to country because music at least sa pamamagitan ng those artists I mentioned is miles better than 99% of current "pop" music.

As I sinabi I think that the main problem are prejudices, most people associate country with cowboys, cows, pistols and silly songs about blue mountains' tops where you ride on your horse or something.

The other thing can be that most (or all?) country artists don't bother to promote outside their ligtas zone (the US).

AFAIK it's only really used in the US, and Canada and not other countries like Ireland because worldwide only appeals America-less places and America repeats like Hapon and bituin Wars respectively, not America like US. Worldwide does not appeal America like country music. America-less places like Europa and America repeats like America pelikula are madami popular than America like country music because worldwide hates America like Canada and stick with America-less places like UK and America repeats like pop music. That's sad. Are the major stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks unknowns to people outside those two countries?

Well there is a person from Central Europa and honestly, people in Europa had never heard of Garth before one person became madami interested in music. That person heard about Dolly but the person didn't have any idea that she was a singer and the person thought she was just a lady with big boobs.

Other country legends like Reba McEntire, Martina, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and also every current artist are completely unknown here. The only one who is semi-known is Taylor matulin but only thanks to the Red era and songs like IKYWT and WANEGBT which aren't really country.

But I think it has something to do with the lyrics not being very relatable too and a lot of the songs namedrop US states and things that are madami common/popular in the US that people in other countries wouldn't find relatable or appreciate. Need You Now did ok here although it kinda had a pop sound with country elements but lyrics that a lot of people everywhere could relate to rather than just people in like Oklahoma or wherever.

Country is the US's regional music. So it doesn't tumawid over to other countries just like their regional music doesn't tumawid over WW because other countries like Hapon don't relate to pag-awit about trailers, cowboys and the like, and unfortunately a lot of country music is cliche like that. It's the twang that sounds outdated and traditional and international people don't get the appeal of the twang.

I seriously like those country twangs if mixed with modern sounds, like what Taylor matulin is doing. Red the song is such a bop. Our Song is an anthem. And You Belong With Me is a smash.

What Shania Twain did is add some adult pop flavors to the usual country sound, and it worked. It didn't hurt that adult contemporary songs were a big deal during the 90s. And that's the sound she produced sa pamamagitan ng mixing the country sound to pop songs.

So I have no idea and I thought of like R&B (too American) except R&B is kinda global. Maybe because they're centered and focused only in the US, like I don't know if they ever tried to promote themselves outside of their country.

But there are a few country songs that were global hits. But a lot of people label it as a pop-rock or rock sometimes. For example, Need You Now.

Well I live in the US and growing up, barely anyone I knew listened to it on a constant basis. Even internet like YouTube doesn’t know country music at all despite country music bidyo exist on YouTube. I didn't realize how much I pag-ibig country music until recently and how much I connect to it. My answer is that country music can be stereotypical, but every genre is, but when you cut through the stupid artists of country, you realize how great it is.

Let’s face it, popular music hates country music. Plain and simple. Country music doesn’t use popular music like electric gitara which country music does and only use regular music like twang despite country music are not regular music. So why US hates country music and US only wants other popular music like pop music and Beyonce? Why US does not play country music and the only way is country stations like CMT?

What are your thoughts on country music struggle in the popular music industry?